Quartile rating: 7/10 · 1 rating
An experimental portrait of the North American commercial fishing industry through the lens of GoPro cameras placed on a fishing vessel off the coast of New England.
Leviathan is a genuinely singular work of observational cinema — an immersive, almost hallucinatory sensory experience achieved by mounting GoPro cameras across a working fishing trawler. There is no conventional narrative or plot structure, just raw, visceral footage of labor, sea, and animal death. The cinematography is extraordinary in its conception: chaotic, disorienting imagery that blurs the line between human, creature, and ocean in a way never quite seen before. Its novelty is unquestionable — it belongs to a rarefied tradition of pure experiential documentary. The 'acting' category is moot given the observational format, earning a low score by default. The ending, like the film itself, simply fades without resolution, which fits the work but won't satisfy all viewers.